International Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

The Benderson Family Heart Center at Boston Children’s Hospital never hesitates to take on the most difficult and rare cases as well as the most common ones. With more than 26 decades of collective cardiac surgery experience, we achieve favorable outcomes while treating more than four times as many patients as most pediatric heart centers in North America.

From your family’s first visit, through surgery and recovery, you’ll work with a team of professionals who are committed to supporting your child’s medical, physical, and emotional needs and making your experience as manageable as possible.

Our cardiac specialists focus on specific areas of the heart and apply their expertise to preparing comprehensive, effective treatment plans for each individual patient — no matter the complexity of their condition. That expertise also enables us to push the boundaries of what was previously possible in each of our surgical specialties, including:

• Congenital heart defects
• Adult congenital heart care
• Arteriopathy
• Biventricular repair
• Congenital heart valve disease
• Coronary artery abnormalities or malformations
• Heart transplant
• Heart tumor
• Fetal and neonatal heart care
• Pulmonary vein stenosis
• Single ventricle defects
• Vascular ring and airways

Surgical treatment is more than the operation itself. It’s also about creating the most effective surgical plans, improving procedures in the operating room, and helping patients recover from surgery quickly with minimal complications. Through these care initiatives, we’re making heart surgery a seamless process for children:

• Surgical electrophysiology
• Cardiovascular 3D modeling
• Enhanced recovery

We offer one-of-a-kind training to support physicians who refer patients to our care. If you’re a clinician and would like to refer a patient, please reach out to Boston Children’s Global Services team:

Boston Children’s Global Services

+1-617-355-5209
international.center@childrens.harvard.edu